Christian Bale is Not The Dark Knight Star Gary Oldman Calls “The sweetest guy on earth”
Legendary actor Gary Oldman heaped praise on one of his co-stars from The Dark Knight trilogy and it wasn’t Christian Bale. While reminiscing about working on the massively successful Batman films, Oldman revealed that Cillian Murphy is “the sweetest guy on Earth” and “such a lovely man.”
Who Does Gary Oldman Call “The Sweetest Guy on Earth” From The Dark Knight Trilogy?
Cillian Murphy portrayed the villain Scarecrow across all three Dark Knight movies directed by Christopher Nolan. But behind the scenes, Gary Oldman, in a recent appearance on Happy Sad Confused, described Murphy as being the complete opposite of his sinister on-screen persona. In Oldman’s own words:
“Cillian Murphy is the one of the most this sweetest guy on Earth. He is such a lovely man and I knew I’d cross paths with him from the Batman, um and uh, and I, Chris said ‘You want to come in for a day and do this?’ and I said ‘Sure, great, you know.’ Um, and I had the scene with just Cillian. It was terrific but I did not know where it was in the shooting or anything like that. I, I, I maybe if I had known just the sheer scale of it.”
While talking about his experience working with Murphy, Oldman said,
“And I, um, I may have been a little more intimidated. I don’t, right, you know? But it was just a man talking to another man in a room, right? You know, so it was very sort of intimate interior. Um, and then you see where it, where it falls in the thing but that again was, um, Chris just said he trusted me to put it together.”
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How Did Gary Oldman React to Cillian Murphy’s Casting as Scarecrow?
Oldman went on to share that he didn’t know Murphy had been cast as Scarecrow when they first interacted on the set of Batman Begins. If he had realized the massive scale of the production and Murphy’s prominent role as the villain, Oldman admitted he might have felt more nervous about their scene together.
But Murphy’s friendly and down-to-earth nature instantly put Oldman at ease. Their one-on-one scene felt like an intimate dialogue between two actors rather than a clash between hero and villain.
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Director Christopher Nolan’s faith in Oldman’s ability to craft the scene also reduced any potential anxiety. Overall, Murphy’s sweet personality clearly left a strong impression on Oldman over the course of filming three blockbuster Batman movies together.
While Christian Bale delivered an iconic turn as the Caped Crusader himself, Gary Oldman’s warm comments about Cillian Murphy highlight another unsung performer who helped make The Dark Knight trilogy so memorable.
